Stanford, MT population, income and ZIP codes

Stanford town is a very small community in Montana, with 266 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #216 of 497 ranked by population — larger than 56% of them. The median age here is 62.1 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in Stanford town earn a median of $52,045 a year, 33.7% below the national figure of $78,538 and 17% below the $62,992 median for the 94 Montana cities we cover. Household income here is measured before tax and pooled across everyone at the address, which is why it reads higher than typical individual earnings in the same area. Poverty reaches 19.9% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in Stanford town is valued at $170,100, 43.9% below the national figure and 32% below the $250,900 peer median, while median gross rent runs $425 a month, 69.8% below the national figure, or roughly $5,100 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 9.8% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 3.3×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 79.1% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

A median age of 62.1 puts Stanford town well into retirement-weighted territory, which pulls median household income down even where household wealth is high, because retirement draws are counted differently from wages. With 266 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Stanford town against its county rather than against national figures.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.